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Author: Alireza Alamnezhad\/ Translated by: Zarrin Najafi\/ Photo by: Mehmet O<\/em><\/p>\n

Golestan Palace, or the Palace of Flowers houses some of the capital\u2019s oldest royal buildings and is one of the most prominent historic complexes in Iran. During the Q\u0101j\u0101r rule, this now UNESCO World Heritage listed site was considered the political capital of the Q\u0101j\u0101r dynasty and had witnessed coronations of seven Q\u0101j\u0101r rulers as well as both of the Pahlavi kings.<\/p>\n

As most of the buildings within the site date to the Q\u0101j\u0101r era, it is generally perceived as a Q\u0101j\u0101r palace complex. The true history of its origins, however, stretches far back to the Safavid period when, in 1580, Sh\u0101h Abb\u0101s I built a citadel in Tehran. Later on, between 1760 and 1767, Karim Kh\u0101n Zand built a div\u0101nkh\u0101neh (court or seat of the government) within the Safavid citadel and changed the main design of the complex. At present only the Marble Throne Veranda and Karim Kh\u0101ni Nook date to this period.<\/p>\n

After Karim Kh\u0101n\u2019s death, Agh\u0101 Mohammad Kh\u0101n, the founder of the Q\u0101j\u0101r dynasty, took advantage of the ensuing civil unrest in Iran and expanded Q\u0101j\u0101r territory up to the cities of Tehran and Damghan. In 1795, he defeated the last king of the Zand Dynasty, Lotf Ali Kh\u0101n conquered Tehran the following year and declared himself the king of Iran. Agh\u0101 Mohammad Kh\u0101n\u2019s coronation at the Golestan Palace turned it into a place of unrivalled importance among the Q\u0101j\u0101r kings. Fat\u2019h Ali Sh\u0101h(1772\u20131834), who was also crowned here, had commissioned further decoration and expansion works of the palace complex. N\u0101ser Al-Din Sh\u0101h, impressed by the palaces he had visited in Europe, had the Palace extensively renovated, having it almost entirely reshaped. The complex did not undergo any further changes until the fall of the Q\u0101j\u0101r dynasty in 1925…<\/p>\n

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